Hyundai Motor Group presents HMG Good Metropolis imaginative and prescient at 2022 World Cities Summit

Hyundai Motor Group (The Group) right this moment offered the HMG Good Metropolis grasp mannequin on the 2022 World Cities Summit in Singapore.

The mannequin represents the Group’s imaginative and prescient for good cities and illustrates the way it will empower them with sustainable and good mobility options. The mannequin will function a tenet for creating good mobility options that assist good cities around the globe whereas revitalizing their city communities.

Throughout the growth of the mannequin, the Group additionally affirmed its good metropolis philosophy that are ‘human-centered, coexist with nature, and embrace the long run.’

Hyundai Motor Group President and Chief Innovation Officer, Youngcho Chi, additional elaborated on the Group’s imaginative and prescient for good cities throughout his participation within the World Cities Summit panel dialogue.

“The HMG Good Metropolis grasp mannequin is our imaginative and prescient for a human-centered metropolis that may revitalize city communities. Sooner or later good cities, our ambition is for humankind to stay with nature whereas embracing know-how. Our air and floor mobility options will redefine city boundaries, join individuals in significant methods, and revitalize cities,” President Chi mentioned. “We are going to proceed to work with governments across the globe to convey our good metropolis imaginative and prescient to actuality, whereas quickly advancing capabilities in future mobility options.”

The HMG Good Metropolis idea, impressed by a honeycomb sample, is a hexagonal-shaped metropolis with a human-centered floor layer, and function-centered underground layer. On the floor layer, the buildings encircle nature, within the type of parks and forest, which sit on the middle of town, successfully minimizing the gross space developed by humankind.

The buildings are divided into three sections by inhabitants density – excessive, medium and low. The density decreases nearer the parks and forests within the metropolis middle, affording individuals an unobstructed view of nature from any a part of town. Buildings are organized inside these sections in accordance with their functions. As an example, metropolis landmarks can be within the high-density space, whereas safety infrastructure can be positioned within the medium density space, enabling easy entry to any part.

Town can be related by street infrastructure within the underground layer. All items and companies can be transported underground through autonomous mobility to every area’s automated logistics hub, the place autonomous robots will make the ultimate supply.

Residents will journey between cities by the superior air mobility (AAM). The AAM autos will land and take off from a collection of the Hub 2.0 towers, which mix residential and workplace areas with AAM ports on the prime of the constructing.

The HMG Good Metropolis idea additionally envisions a sustainable inexperienced metropolis the place giant pure areas are preserved. Town middle will characteristic leisure forests, parks, and a reservoir to supply water for town. To make sure carbon neutrality, town’s major energy supply can be hydrogen, distributed by the good grid pipelines to energy buildings by hydrogen gasoline cell turbines.

The Hyundai Motor Group introduced its imaginative and prescient for future cities and supporting good mobility options at CES in 2020. Since then, the Group has been creating good mobility options quickly.

The Group launched ground-breaking EVs such because the Hyundai IONIQ 5 and Kia EV6 whereas asserting plans to supply Function Constructed Autos (PBVs) and robotaxis in future. Motional, the Group’s three way partnership for autonomous driving know-how, is at present creating robotaxis which can be commercialized in 2023. The Group’s AAM subsidiary, Supernal, lately revealed the cabin idea of eVTOL car, at present underneath growth with an intention of commercialization in 2028.

The Group can also be working intently with governments around the globe to make cities smarter. The Group signed MOU with Singapore’s authorities company JTC on a transport modeling undertaking that goals to boost logistics effectivity utilizing autonomous driving, EV, AI, and massive knowledge.

SOURCE: Hyundai Motor Group